an interesting fact of our moment is that the only political faction who are literal reactionaries are the people who style themselves centrists, moderates. 1/

the right is now radical, pursuing a vision as novel as it is horrid. its goals have some relationship to an idealized past, but only like steampunk has some relationship to history. 2/

socialists, progressives, social democrats, greens, national or subnational liberationists, all of these tendencies are overtly going for something new. 3/

only one influential faction that styles itself center has for its project basically return to as things were, before tumultuous changes. its project is a return to Clintonism, or Obamaism (are they synonyms?). they may be wise or unwise, but if the word has any meaning they are reactionaries. /fin